Panel explores ways to combat human trafficking in NJ

9:06 AM,
Sep. 24, 2013

Linda Michalski , l, Melanie Gorelick, director of the Community Relations Committee of MetroWest and facilitator of the NJ Coalition against Human Trafficking and Sr. Donna Jo Repetti, grassroots leaders in the relatively recent local movement to stop human trafficking in the U.S.

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Malia Rulon Herman
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Human trafficking is distressingly common in places in the U.S. where people would least expect it, former New Jersey Attorney General John J. Farmer Jr. said at a congressional hearing Monday.

Sen. Jeffrey Chiesa, R-N.J., requested the hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to call attention to the problem in advance of the 2014 Super Bowl, set to be played at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., in February.

"Experience has demonstrated that high-profile events like the Super Bowl attract an upsurge in human trafficking incidents," ...